Call for Papers: Open Sessions

Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section

15 December 2015, 13:08

Theme:

"ILL is dead! Long live resource sharing!"

The Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section is organizing an Open Session during the 2016 WLIC in Columbus, Ohio. We invite proposals for papers to be presented at a two hour programme which is scheduled to take place in Columbus.

Objectives

“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”. This misquote is often attributed to Mark Twain, but it could easily be applied to the state of interlibrary loan today. We invite papers of all sorts but are especially interested in hearing your experience from the field regarding the health of resource sharing and interlibrary lending.

Papers

Presenters will be expected to submit final versions of their papers (consisting of no more than ten pages on Microsoft Word, including an abstract) by 15th May 2016. Papers should be in English or in one of the official IFLA languages with an English translation attached. The language of the session will be English. Presenters will have 20-25 minutes at the programme to present their papers and time will be allocated at the end of the session for an open forum to allow for audience interaction.

Please note that the Programme Committee has no funds to assist prospective authors: abstracts should only be submitted on the understanding that the expenses of attending the IFLA Conference (including travel, expenses and conference fee) will be the responsibility of the author(s)/ presenter(s) of accepted papers. Some national professional organizations may be able to help fund certain expenses and a small number of grants for conference attendance may be available.

Submissions

All proposals must be received by 15 February 2016.

Please note

At least one of the paper’s authors must be present to deliver a summary of the paper during the program in Columbus, Ohio. Abstracts should only be submitted with the understanding that the expenses of attending the conference will be the responsibility of the author(s)/presenter(s) of accepted papers.

All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation letter can be issued to authors.